Two top staffers for Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx are resigning following the office’s decision to drop 16 charges against actor Jussie Smollett, who is suspected of having staged a hate crime against himself. According to the Chicago Tribune, chief ethics officer April Perry and special prosecutor Mark Rotert, who leads the Conviction Integrity Unit, will step down on May 3. In a statement to HuffPost, Foxx praised Rotert for making the unit “a national model,” noting that during his tenure, “we have vacated the convictions of over 70 wrongfully convicted men and women.”
